Overwhelms Quotes

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

New cities arouse too many sensations in me. They give me too many impressions to experience at the same time. They all crowd in on me. Being in a new city overwhelms me, unsettles me.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I`m at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.